If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.